Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We share our novel approach to datacenter management connectivity using Passive Optical Network (PON) technology. Traditionally used in residential and SMB ISP access, PON offers flexibility, scale, and efficiency benefits for management and console services in Meta's hyperscale datacenters.
This talk explores the rationale behind adopting PON, includes a brief overview of its fundamentals, and dives into Meta's implementation. We also discuss how we manage the whole system using our automation tools, including the end-to-end lifecycle management, starting from barcode scanning of PON assets as they enter Meta datacenters.
MJ (Mike Joseph): MJ is currently the tech lead / manager of the Infrastructure Network Engineering team at Meta. Amongst other previous roles, MJ also oversaw technical operations for Google Fiber, a startup G-PON ISP within Alphabet.
Mike (MJ) Joseph: MJ (Mike Joseph) is currently the tech lead / manager of the Infrastructure Network Engineering team at Meta. In this role, he leads the team which provides management, out-of-band, facilities, and disaster recovery networks for all of Meta's global data centers and PoPs, as part of the backbone networking organization inside Meta's production infrastructure department. Previously, MJ oversaw technical operations for Google Fiber, a startup G-PON ISP within Alphabet. He has also held roles as Director of Operations for Oracle's public cloud, Director of Network Operations for Yahoo!, and VP of Technical Operations for an SD-WAN and edge computing startup.
Speaker Mike (MJ) Joseph - Meta
We share our novel approach to datacenter management connectivity using Passive Optical Network (PON) technology. Traditionally used in residential and SMB ISP access, PON offers flexibility, scale, and efficiency benefits for management and console services in Meta's hyperscale datacenters.
This talk explores the rationale behind adopting PON, includes a brief overview of its fundamentals, and dives into Meta's implementation. We also discuss how we manage the whole system using our automation tools, including the end-to-end lifecycle management, starting from barcode scanning of PON assets as they enter Meta datacenters.
MJ (Mike Joseph): MJ is currently the tech lead / manager of the Infrastructure Network Engineering team at Meta. Amongst other previous roles, MJ also oversaw technical operations for Google Fiber, a startup G-PON ISP within Alphabet.
Mike (MJ) Joseph: MJ (Mike Joseph) is currently the tech lead / manager of the Infrastructure Network Engineering team at Meta. In this role, he leads the team which provides management, out-of-band, facilities, and disaster recovery networks for all of Meta's global data centers and PoPs, as part of the backbone networking organization inside Meta's production infrastructure department. Previously, MJ oversaw technical operations for Google Fiber, a startup G-PON ISP within Alphabet. He has also held roles as Director of Operations for Oracle's public cloud, Director of Network Operations for Yahoo!, and VP of Technical Operations for an SD-WAN and edge computing startup.
Speaker Mike (MJ) Joseph - Meta
